U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 6

U-BOAT CAMPAIGN

NAVY SHATTERING GERMAN HOPES AT LEAST 14 SUBMARINES SUNK. SIX OTHERS PROBABLY DESTROYED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 30. The total British tonnage lost during October is roughly 65,00 b compared with 156,000 during September. The Navy is convinced that it has shattered the German U-boat hopes. Last week’s losses of 21,000 tons were coun-ter-balanced by the capture of 19,500 tons of German shipping. British vessels are keeping the seas, while the Germans are merely trying to slink back home. Yet not one per cent are succeeding. The Naval authorities describe the German fairy tales of British losses as partly for neutrals and partly home consumption state that they claim to have sunk 475,000 tons is fantasjtc and exaggerated, even if neutral casualties are added to British. “We have sunk at least 14 U-boats, and six were seriously damaged, probably sunk,” it is added. “The British Navy is at a great disadvantage, as the German vessels are able to hug the coast of Norway to Germany inside territorial waters.”